WebView and HTML5 <video>

Question

I\'m piecing together a cheapo app that amongst other things \"frames\" some of our websites... Pretty simple with the WebViewClient. until I hit the video.

Answer 1

Well, apparently this is just not possible without using a JNI to register a plugin to get the video event. (Personally, I am avoiding JNI's since I really don't want to deal with a mess when Atom-based android tablets come out in the next few months, losing the portability of Java.)

The only real alternative seems to be to create a new web page just for WebView and do video the old-school way with an A HREF link as cited in the Codelark url above.

Icky.